Witter Bynner Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
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I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.
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A robust democracy requires active participation.
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As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
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I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.
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Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.
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I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.
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The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
